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Accidental uploading.

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If you accidentally misclick and upload the wrong image, when it is deleted, will it count to my upload limit and how many images I may upload?

I'm curious because I accidentally uploaded an image of my cat, and got it deleted, only to see that my upload limit went down.

Updated by jxh2154

The system has no concept of what an accidental upload is, so any upload that gets deleted will always count against your upload limit.

And just a thought here: it'd be nice if there could be a "staging area" for uploads - where you could see a preview of what your post would look like just before having it go public. I'm sure that would mostly do-away with those "ohshi- didn't mean to upload that" moments, but I do suppose triple-checking the filename on the upload page is sufficient enough.

Bapabooiee said:
And just a thought here: it'd be nice if there could be a "staging area" for uploads - where you could see a preview of what your post would look like just before having it go public.

Well, you can click the "Find Similar" button before uploading to view your selected upload. That works well.

Well, I tried to see if the correct image I had was the right one. However I couldn't see it for some reason. So I uploaded, and up popped my cat. I'm sure my cat would have liked the attention on the internet. Purely my fault on the upload.

Fred1515 said:
You can ask a mod or admin to double-delete it so it won't affect your upload limit.

Hmm, I wasn't aware that double-deleting did that. I was under the impression that it only deleted the image, but still kept information about the post in the database (resulting in "blank" posts).

I thought janitors could do it too, but since Bap hasn't noticed, they probably can't.

Janitors (and even Test Janitors) can delete posts. Though, it looks like Bloodletter took care it now, since I was a little slow.

Bapabooiee said:
I was under the impression that it only deleted the image, but still kept information about the post in the database (resulting in "blank" posts).

I believe that such posts were deleted before Danbooru crashed, thus the missing image (it appears the server didn't keep stuff by default back then).

hidetheunforgiven said:
Well, I tried to see if the correct image I had was the right one. However I couldn't see it for some reason. So I uploaded, and up popped my cat.

You mean the "Find Similar" button didn't work? You can use iqdb.org for that too.

Anyway, just do what Dogenzaka said in the future, that way you'll be able to see the image before uploading and make sure it's not already on Danbooru. Two birds with one stone.

And take care of your cat.

Fred1515 said:
You mean the "Find Similar" button didn't work? You can use iqdb.org for that too.

Anyway, just do what Dogenzaka said in the future, that way you'll be able to see the image before uploading and make sure it's not already on Danbooru. Two birds with one stone.

And take care of your cat.

Actually, I was looking through my files and tried to use the thumbnail view. Couldn't see if I had the correct image so I clicked upload.

And yes, I'll take care of my Nala.

Hillside_Moose said:
The hell? I thought Test Janitors only had approval privileges, not deletion privileges.

There's a delete button next to pending posts when viewing the mod queue (no idea if it works or not), but outside of that I can't find anything that would signify I can delete posts. When viewing a post page itself there certainly doesn't seem to be any such option (even if it's a pending image), or at least not one that I can see.

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Hillside_Moose said:
The hell? I thought Test Janitors only had approval privileges, not deletion privileges.

When I was a Test Janitor, I tried using the "Delete" link in the mod queue on a really spammy post once, and it worked. I also believe that I saw Mr_GT (who is currently a Test Janitor) delete unforgiven's accidental kitty upload too.

This seems to be contrary to what the janitor application page says.

Hillside_Moose said:
The hell? I thought Test Janitors only had approval privileges, not deletion privileges.

They couldn't back in the first round of janitor tryouts I guess albert decided to change it or he did it by accident. I know because I tried to delete plenty of spam posts in the queue way back in the day.

I've been meaning to open a thread to this effect for a while now, but this thread looks like a good place to ask: Is there a reason we don't give users the ability to perma-delete their own uploads, for situations just like this one?

Coconut said:
Is there a reason we don't give users the ability to perma-delete their own uploads, for situations just like this one?

Well, all content on the site is considered public domain. When a post gets uploaded, it belongs to everyone, so the uploader gets no ownership over it.

And let's not even think about how people could abuse the ability to delete their own posts.

Coconut said:
Is there a reason we don't give users the ability to perma-delete their own uploads, for situations just like this one?

Maybe in the case of someone who posted a lot of good pics, but later on decided to delete them all (because of whatever reason) he/she won't be able to do so.

Coconut said:
I've been meaning to open a thread to this effect for a while now, but this thread looks like a good place to ask: Is there a reason we don't give users the ability to perma-delete their own uploads, for situations just like this one?

In the past you could. Then we had several cases of users who got upset about something, and deleted all of their posts, including all the work others had put into them - tagging, translations, etc.

So now a user can't delete his uploads anymore. Effectively, users needs to stop thinking that they "own" their uploads; they do not, and therefore can't do with them as they please. Accidental uploads are handled by contacting the mods, if it's merely because you don't want to be associated with a given upload, then you'll have to live with it.

The other reason is that the ratio of deleted posts is a metric of posting quality. If you could just perma-delete your unapproved posts, that plainly wouldn't work anymore. In any case it would become less trackable.

The only one who may request arbitrary deletion is the original artist, because there's a good case to be made that he does own the post, unlike the person who merely uploaded it.

When I accidentally upload things, I just unapprove it myself with a message and send it back to the queue. If a mod thinks its alright he'll approve it, if not he'll just let it sink.

piespy said:
Effectively, users needs to stop thinking that they "own" their uploads; they do not, and therefore can't do with them as they please.

I saw it first therefore it is mine and no amount of perfectly sound logic can dissuade my superior preschool notions of ownership!

Action_Kamen said:
When I accidentally upload things, I just unapprove it myself with a message and send it back to the queue. If a mod thinks its alright he'll approve it, if not he'll just let it sink.

You really need to stop doing this, you are privileged not contributor everything you post already goes through the queue. If you upload a sample sure go ahead and unapprove it after parenting and uploading the full, but otherwise you really shouldn't be doing this.

Log said:
You really need to stop doing this, you are privileged not contributor everything you post already goes through the queue. If you upload a sample sure go ahead and unapprove it after parenting and uploading the full, but otherwise you really shouldn't be doing this.

I'm curious; what is the downside to unapproving images still in the queue? It doesn't seem to me like there'd be much of a difference either way, but you're not the first janitor I've seen complain about it.

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